The best way to contact me is through email: sidawxyz at gmail.com.
Some of my projects can be found on github
and most of my publications are tracked by Google Scholar.

Research interests

I want computers to better understand human language and
I am particularly interested in language interfaces
that accommodates both the precise computer action space and the informal human thinking.
Towards this, we studied
learning language games
where the system attempts to learns a language interactively starting from scratch; and naturalizing a programming language, where the system
learns from hierarchical definitions.

More broadly, I’m interested in machine learning and natural language processing.
Some of my work is applied:
semantic parsing, machine translation, document classification and sentiment analysis.
Others are more theoretical:
method of moments,
regularization/dropout, and
MAP inference.